What Has Their Skin Colour Or Even Their Class Got To Do With This?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5812075/Fashion-bosss-fury-white-middle-class-men-left-attacked-busy-Tube.html

Strange this woman does not blame the 6 foot Asian man for attacking her, but would rather blame the two middle class white men for not coming to her aid.

[Cloverjo]

She didn't blame the attacker because he was clearly "unwell". She blamed the other men because they were not, yet did nothing to help her.

[237SJ]

She said that she "believed" he was unwell. He might not have been. He might have just been a violent thug but anyway, she forgives him. I wonder if she would have praised the person who helped her if he had not been Eastern European. Seems she's trying to make some sort of point about race.

[Mamyalynne]

She explains it all quite well in the article, describing what she felt about the man who attacked, the ones who left her and the one who came to her aid afterwards.

[hereIam]

Who cares if he was 'unwell', he was still a vicious thug attacking her and deserved censure !!

[Sqad]

Well now the chickens have come home to roost.
We have had many threads applauding the arrival of a much safer era in the UK.
In that situation, some 30 or 40 years ago, i would have gone to the aid of that women, as would many men, middle class or otherwise, but NOW, i would think twice. With knife assaults and other forms of physical abuse on the increase, i would consider that my life would be in danger and as a dead parent or indeed husband I would be of little use.
It would be a spur of the moment decision, but i certainly would hesitate and may act in the manner of the males in this story. Sad, but true.
If she was a "fashion boss" why travel by tube to a meeting? mrs sqad would never travel by public transport in London.

[hereIam]

237 - I agree with you.

[ToraToraTora]

completely radio, if they had helped she'd have probaby had them nicked for assault or something. Just the sort of Blancaphobic misadrist that gives sensible women a bad name.

[ToraToraTora]

... so it's ok to beat up people if you're a bit uncle is it? right oh!

[anneasquith]

Its the victims fault for travelling on the tube .

[anotheoldgit]

It could quite have been a domestic, what then? It's been known in the past for knights in shiny armour to intervene and get set on by the couple having the domestic.

[anneasquith]

It was not " a domestic " .

[vetuste_ennemi]

Ah, the Daily Mail again. Sorry, AOG, DM yet again revealing its low journalistic standards. "White middle-class men", eh?

This from the "NUJ guidelines on race reporting" - and I hope I'm quoting it accurately:

"Only mention someone's race if it is strictly relevant. ...Would you mention race if the person wasn't white?"

and

"Do not make assumptions about a person's cultural background"

[anotheoldgit]

anneasquith

/// It was not " a domestic " ///

And how could the two 'middle class white men', have possibly known that?

[anotheoldgit]

vetuste_ennemi

/// Ah, the Daily Mail again. Sorry, AOG, DM yet again revealing its low journalistic standards. ///

Don't blame the Daily Mail's journalistic standards, they were only reporting on how Tamara Cincik described them.

/// 'I remain more angry with those white middle class men who left me to it. As fathers, husbands and sons they should be ashamed of themselves.' ///